This is not a response to threats but self-made capability shortfalls.
In a confidential Feb. 10 memorandum, Mr. Brownlee ordered General Mikolashek to "identify any capability shortfalls with respect to internment, enemy prisoner of war, detention operations, and interrogation procedures and recommend appropriate resolutions or changes, if required".
On that scale, the Pentagon's latest quarterly readiness report to Congress, issued last week, concluded that "most major combat and key support forces are ready to meet assigned taskings, although there are force readiness and capability shortfalls that increase risk in executing operations".
Similar and coordinated initiatives in the future could go far in alleviating the pressures placed on European defense budgets due to economic shortfalls, shifting U.S. interests, and capability shortfalls at home.
The memo continued: "We would like you to lead a small team to fully define this shortfall in tasking capability [and] identify all the necessary changes needed to rectify it".
In the air we need more helicopters, as recent reports have pointed to at least a decade of shortfall in rotary capability – again vital both to our reach and to humanitarian work in tricky terrain.
Thus one problem with financial capability work when conceived as correcting shortfalls in the abilities of individuals is that it might be trying to develop the extraordinary in people who are for the most part ordinary.
A shortfall in people's financial capability has been identified as partially to blame for bad financial planning, such as a lack of personal pension provision [ 1].
Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and the author of two widely cited reports warning of looming holes in the scientific workforce, sees a "gap [that] represents a shortfall in our national scientific and technical capabilities".
The consistent diminishment of the enforcement capabilities of the IRS creates the "tax gap," the shortfall of revenues compared with expectations, because of tax evasion.
One of the documents reveals the extremely poor state of the government's medical aid capabilities: only "five mobile teams" are available to cover the shortfall for the entire state, but with only two ambulance, but — as subsequent notes record — "in reality [there are only] two, as they only have two ambulances from the Myanmar Red Cross".
